The charm of Post-impressionism
by Geng Mima painting artA new artistic form
represented by Cezanne,
Van Gogh and Gauguin
appeared after Impressionism, which was different from Impressionism and was
called Post-impressionism by people. Not satisfied with the manifestation of Impressionistic
“objectivism” and one-sided pursuit of light and color, Post-impressionists
emphasized that the author should express his own feelings, subjective emotions
and moods in turn. In artistic expression, Post-impressionism attached
importance to form, color and volume’s structural relations. It emphasized that
the artistic image has to be different from the object in life and it need the
author’s subjective emotions to transform the objective images so as to show
“the objectivity that has been subjective”.
Van
Gogh, a Netherlander, is an important Post-impressionist. Because he had rich
life experiences and deep affection with working people, he was keen on
describing their ordinary and hard labor life in his works. He used realistic
techniques of expression and described rural scenery and people’s labor life in
most of his early oil paintings. And traditional dark tone was the main color
in the representation of colors in those works. When coming to
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